Omar Pasha on horseback, with Colonel Simmons, during the Crimean War, by Roger Fenton

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Illustration from V R I Her Life And Empire published in 1901. After the photograph by Roger Fenton (1819-1869). Info from wiki: Omar Pasha, commander in the Crimean War, Ottoman field marshal and governor who won outstanding victories at Silistra and Eupatoria, and participated in the siege of Sevastopol John Lintorn Arabin Simmons was a British Army officer. Early in his career he served as Inspector of Railways, Secretary of the Railways Commission and then Secretary of the Railway Department under the Board of Trade. He went on to be British Commissioner with the Turkish Army providing advice to General Omar Pasha during the Crimean War. He assisted the Turks at the defence of Silistra and then led them at the Battle of Giurgevo before landing with them at the Battle of Eupatoria and remaining with them for the Siege of Sevastopol. After that he became British Consul in Warsaw.

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